Bash.UnstructuredIO.Client

Unofficial .NET SDK for the Unstructured API

This is an unofficial .NET client for the Unstructured API. Refer to Official Unstructured API Docs to understand about the project and steps to use the hosted service or deploy your own instance using Docker.

Getting started

Install from NuGet

Install package Bash.UnstructuredIO.Client from Nuget. Here's how via command line:

Install-Package Bash.UnstructuredIO.Client

SDK Example Usage

The UnstructuredClient class can be used both by dependency injection or directly instantiating it wherever required. The first parameter is the server URL of the Unstructured instance. It can either be set to the official hosted API or your own instance. The seond one is the api-key which is optional and can be omitted.

Using Dependency Injection

builder.Services.AddSingleton<IUnstructuredClient>(
    new UnstructuredClient("http://localhost:8000", "my-key-123")
);

Directly Instantiating the client

var unstructuredClient = new UnstructuredClient("http://localhost:8000", "my-key-123");

Usage

The PartitionAsync method returns a ApiResponse object that has the parameters of Data, Message and StatusCode.

1. The Data property is a list of Elements that have been extracted from the document.
2. The Message and StatusCode properties return a message if the extraction was successful or not.

Simple Example

var filePath = "SampleFiles\\lorem_ipsum.docx";            
var result = await _unstructuredClient.PartitionAsync(filePath, CancellationToken.None);
var elements = result.Data;

foreach (var element in elements)
{
   Console.WriteLine(element.Text);
}

Additional Extraction Options

See the api parameters page for all available Extraction Options.

var options = new ExtractionOptions()
{
    Strategy = UnstructuredConstants.Strategy.HighResolution,
    Coordinates = true
};
         
var result = await unstructuredClient.PartitionAsync(filePath, options, CancellationToken.None);

Unstructured Constants

The UnstructuredConstants contains a set of constants that can be used in the SDK.

Maturity

This SDK is in beta, and there may be breaking changes between versions without a major version update. Therefore, we recommend pinning usage to a specific package version. This way, you can install the same version each time without breaking changes unless you are intentionally looking for the latest version.

Contributions

This was a project aimed at learning how NuGet packages can be created along with the itch of doing some .NET stuff besides work. Contributions are very welcome and needed. It is not probably following the best practices so willing to learn whoever contributes to do a code review!

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.txt file for details.